LAW AND ORDER: SVU “Blood Brothers” Review

LAW AND ORDER: SVU “Blood Brothers” Review

LAW AND ORDER: SVU “Blood Brothers” Season 13 Episode 3 – A pregnant, Catholic school girl starts off “Blood Brothers,” this week’s episode of Law and Order: SVU. I usually spend the first few minutes of any SVU episode trying to figure out from which real-life crime the story was ripped. I was pretty sure I had this one pegged (thirteen year old girl gets pregnant by her even-younger schoolmate), but the show zigged (a little) where I thought it would zag.

Little Ella just wants to be a princess, so when Arturo, her friend from school, invited her to a party at the house of his mother’s former employer, a wealthy ambassador (Kyle MacLachlan), she was more than happy to go along. There, the ambassador’s son, Trip, plied her with spiked lemonade and proved that he really was the overachiever his parents believed him to be: a rapist at only thirteen. Read More...